Journalists Training Workshop on Environmental and Human Rights Violations Held in Pirojpur

G.M. Adol Pirojpur District Correspondent. A two-day training workshop on environmental and human rights violations was held in Pirojpur, bringing together journalists from different print and electronic media outlets.The training was organized on Sunday and Monday (September 27 and 28) at the Dak Diye Jai Training Centre in Pirojpur under the ENGAGE Project of development organization CODEC, with funding from the European Union. NETZ Bangladesh provided technical support for the event. The training was organized under the theme, “Strengthening Environmental Human Rights through Local CSOs for a Just Transition and Transforming Climate-Vulnerable Areas into Resilient Communities.” A total of 25 journalists from print and electronic media from Pirojpur Sadar, Mathbaria and Zianagar (Indurkani) upazilas participated in the workshop.During the training, detailed sessions were conducted on environmental protection, the relationship between the coastal climate crisis and human rights, and various techniques for producing investigative reports on these issues.The sessions were conducted by Abdullah-Al-Masud, Assistant Professor at Khulna University, Sara Khatun, Programme Manager at NETZ Bangladesh; Shafiullah Majumder, Project Director of the CODEC-ENGAGE Project; Shankar Kumar Biswas, Kazi Sani Ferdous, Technical Officer; and local field facilitators.The training was chaired by Khelafat Hossain Khasru, Vice-President of the Pirojpur Press Club. Speakers at the workshop said that objective and fact-based reporting is crucial to addressing the adverse impacts of climate change and environmental disasters in coastal areas. They urged journalists to play a more aware and responsible role in protecting the environment and promoting human rights.The participants were also provided with practical guidance on simple and effective methods of preparing news reports on climate change, environmental degradation and human rights violations.